A team of developers, led by Wispark LLC, this week unveiled detailed architectural renderings for the Drexel Town Square project in Oak Creek. Hundreds of residents attended an open house to see the plans.
The project is an attempt to create a downtown for the city. As proposed, the project will include a 193,000-square-foot Meijer store, several restaurants, a new city hall and library, 500 to 600 apartments, a mixed-use Main Street and a two-acre town square park.
Click here to see a fly through video of the project created by Milwaukee-based Rinka Chung Architecture and posted on the BizTimes YouTube site.
Then, click here to see a slideshow of architectural renderings for the Drexel Town Square project created by Rinka Chung and by Sheboygan-based Bray Architects (which is designing the new City Hall and library).
A recent BizTimes Milwaukee cover story provided a detailed report on the Drexel Town Square project.
In many ways the mixed use Main Street and the upscale apartment portions of the project are reminiscent of the Historic Third Ward in Milwaukee. Buildings are located along the street edge with first floor retail and restaurant space and apartments above. Some of the streets are made with brick pavers. An entrance sign over Main Street is reminiscent of the Third Ward entrance sign and the sign at the former Pabst brewery. Angled parking in the middle of Main Street is similar to Broadway in the Third Ward.
“I’m overwhelmed,” said Oak Creek Mayor Steve Scaffidi. “(The developers’) vision is grander than mine. We are changing the course of what we do as a city.”
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